The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
Walter Kaufmann

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Mason Cooley

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
Mason Cooley

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
Bryant H. McGill

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
Bryant H. McGill

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Christopher Lasch

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
Clifford Stoll

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
Herbert Read

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
Herbert Read

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .
Suzanne Fields

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
Richard Le Gallienne

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
Lucian Freud

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.
William Lyon Mackenzie King